St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-30

bargained for. And l want everybody in
Cartervile, every father and mother to help
me raise my children right. They looked at
me in astonlshment, as much as to say, how
can we help il; all your mothers and fathers
raise your children right and then there
won't be any bad ones TO lead my children
off. [Laughter.] Every bad boy
and girl is bad force to de-
moral;ze your children and every
good boy and girl is moral force to help hold
UP your child. l feel good deal more like
talking this afternoon than do like preach
ing. We have been preached to death; that
is just about the state of the country to-day
Just absolutely preached TO death. good
old brother will get up and read a text and
say my first proposition Is so and so, aud my
second proposition will be so and so, and my
third proposition Will be so and so,
and the people are glad that there
is not fourth proposition that
they don't know what TO do. Laughter. |
Preached to death. And 1 imagine the most
painful death fellow ever died is just lie
down and be preached to death. Five hun
dred nice WATERS in the dining room and the
incest china ware. and the most elegant table
cloths, and the most elegant frescoed dining
room. and nothing in the world to eat.
Laughter. How much day at this institu-
ton? Everybody is lodged here but nobody
fed. Instead of that it ought to be everybody
fed here and nobody lodged. When see
A FELLOW ASLEEP
when am preaching say to him, old fellow
you wake up, we don't lodge people here;
this is an eating-house. Great laughter.
God help us to talk to the people. l love to
talk to people just like sitting down at your
home; at my home. l would like to sit down
here as if at home. Brother, brother, brother
let US reason together on some things this
afternoon that will help us; let US
talk a little about prayer this after
noon. We all pray. / once made this pro-
nnSitiOn an6ianPa in
house who ever prayed u prayer in their life
to God stand up,aud everybody in the house,
to single person stood, up. Everybody
prayed. Everybody prays. And now let me
talk about praying this afternoon here. 1t
is the scriptural duty; it is a scriptural priv
is this: Il will that all men every
where shall pray" Lifting up holy
hands without searching and doubt
ing. Pray without ceasing. When you pray
say so and so. There are a great many pray
ers in this world that doesn't amount to
much. Let me say the sort of prayers that
do good are the sort that move God and man
both. Now some people say prayer is just
simply to move God, but prayer that doesn' t
move God and man both is not an effectual
prayer. I want prayer that will move
men up to where he ought to be,
and that will bring God down to q
point where he will meet him. And God al
ways meets man on halfway ground, and
the cross of Jesus Christ is just halfway
ground between hell and heaven, and there is
where God meets every soul in prayer. l
want such spirit in prayer that will take me
to Christ, and then l want to work on the
mind and the heart of God so as to bring him
down to the cross, and then meet my father
and talk face to face with him. Before God
and man to pray. In a revival meeting we
need about
ONE GOOD PREACHER
and about 500 good prayers. Mr.. Finney used
to carry around with him old Father Nash.
And old Father Nash seldom ever went to
church, but when Mr.. Finney started to
preach, old Father Nash knet down on his
knees and began to pray; and while Finney
was preaching, old Father Nash prayed. And
on one occasion when Finney was preaching
the power of God upon him and
that night, and every person in
it almost was shouting the praise of God at
one time. Some of you good old sisters here
say: 81 never shouted in my life.'' / don't
expect you ever did. and I'll tell you why
because you never had anything to shout
about. There is Il good deal in that. And he
said when he went out of the church, Mr..
Finney said, II expect old father Nash has
had big time with the Lord tonight, -
and when he got over TO the
room he Unmatched the door and
walked in, and there was old Father N ash
shsetihRs-AsS Sonn got LID he said, Dr. Fin
ney, ! have had a Great time tonight with the
Lord; He descended on me in such power and
l felt like going around TO the church and
seeing the people there and He got up in His
praying, and He got down in His praying
and just stood right up and shouted, and
then sat down and shouted, and
when you came in 1 was just falling
over on the floor and finishing up the job
And / tell you. my brethren, that is what we
want in this country. Somebody who has
power with God. Cries Of amen. You hear
the people say l can't pray; my prayers seem
to go just little above my head. and then.
like wounded bird, they seem to futter and
come down. 1 can't get my prayers up to
heaven. Here is
TELEGRAPH OPERATOR.
Here is a wire that commences In New
York city and reaches through the country,
and which is upset. dropped, fiattened and
mashed into the ground. The telegraph
operator sits here and says: 81 can't get a
message through to New York 10 save my
life. am doing my best but it won't go.
When start the message it flashes and comes
back again; can't get it through to New
York. What is the matter? His wire is
not insulated all the way. 1t is
down somewhere; there is q rock or tree on
it, and there isn't enough operators in Amer
lea to get message through on that wire.
Now, here can't get my message through to
heaven. What is the matter? Why, some
thing on the line somewhere. expect there's
a poor old widows claim on you somewhere
that has smashed your wire down. I expect
you have been telling lie somewhere, and
down that came on your wire.
You can't send your message through
to heaven to save your life through a lie
But when the wire is insu ulated the message
goes through on its electric spark and when
your wire to heaven is thoroughly insulated
you can get your prayers to Heaven; when
it is thoroughly insulated by conservation
and good work you can get your message
through to heaven, and by the time your
message gets to the ears of God the blessing
meets it half way between heaven and earth,
and by the time your message gets to the ear
of God the blessing is down upon you and
the people. People that can pray There is
a man down South that is noted for his power
in prayer, and at one of his churches there
was a cross roads grocer, and the barkeeper
was selling whisky on Saturday when this
man was preaching. Finally he said to me:
Brother, have done all 1 could to that bar
keeper, and have asked him to quit and he
won't do it, and now want all of you to pray
God to convert that man before the next
meeting on Saturday. ] want all who will du
it to stand I'D. A great many
GOOD PEOPLE STOOD UP.
He came back on the next Saturday and the
barkeeper was running his business, and he
said: 1--WE have talked to him and prayed to
God to convert him and now want all of you
there to pray God Almighty to kill him be-
fore our next Saturdays meeting. All who
will do it stand up" Well, a great many
stood up. And one of the old soaks went out
that afternoon and told the barkeeper. and
he said 'My business is for sale.
l don't want to be staying around here and
having three or four people talking about m
that way. Iwont do it. am not going to
stand around here like fool. l will be in my
coffin.'' And, bless your soul, that fellow
had sold out, lock. stock and barrel. and
cleaned out of that community. (Great
laughter. God hears prayers. But I be-
lieve man will have to have something
to stand on to pray. Old Brother
Richa rlson, i'm my town, he is a grand